I have been trying to log in to 3 different accounts, mine and 2 of my friends for about an hour now, and it keeps telling me my User name or password is incorrect, I was signed in til midnight last night, EST, and signed back in several times during the day yesterday w/o any issues. Did the expand the block? Did that POL Update that I got ***** something up? Anyone else having these issues?

EDIT:

A friend from LS contacted U.K support (I'm U.S and they dont open for another 2hrs) and they told him they are having issues w/ the playonline server equipment and they currently do not have any timeframe set for recovery.

Edited, Jul 18th 2008 9:58am by Apsolus

Ok this is some crazy crap that is happening. We witnessed, one evening, the hacker on of our own's account, already migrated to another server, going through all her mules... and of course, responding indifferently to our /tells when we called em on it. GM's couldn't do much but tell us to get the hackee on so they could talk. What kicks me the most is that she probably got her credit card charged for her migration. So thats like GRAND theft. It's an impossible situation, to say the least, to solve immediately, especially if the hack is coming from Asia..and we in NA. I also heard a rumor that hackers are proxying the POL community linkshell website. If that is so, watch out people. Dont use it, simple as that. If someone can proxy a frickin ATM pad, they can do it when you log into alla, somepage, or your veryown linkshell website. I believe it because, where else would you put that information on the web. The only thing we can offer, is to not use the same 1 or 2passwords for EVERYTHING u log into.


AH well Good luck
DCGUAMIE (VALEFOR)

If they have blocked china, I can say that while I do feel sorry for the legitimate players from there, it is all the illegitimate players from china that have ruined it for the legitimate players.

would be nice if Square would release more info soon. the suspense is killing me....

I got hacked at the beginning of the month. I did not get hacked via info attained through logging onto the game. I got hacked for logging into the PlayOnline Linkshell Community. I logged on from my pc at work, a place where I believed the network was as secure as you could possibly imagine (ie, extremely). So it is likely that hackers are targeting POL directly now.

SE had to step up security measures and blocking where the vast majority of the compromises came from was the best call to make at this time.

I can't help but wonder how many others got comprised in the same manner. I can say that the call desk has been under extreme load lately. Took me hours to get to talk to support...on mulitple days.

Word to the wise.....be cautious when typing in your POL ID# and password no matter how secure you think you are.

Let's hope so. Cuz i got hacked yesterday morning. While bazaar'n in Rolanberry.

I'm guessing there was either some sort of incident regarding hacking with IP addresses, or they are simply trying yet again to fight the RMT's.

Not much more to add...
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news13756.shtml